Denver Colorado, August 6 2009 - by EL MARCO
This was the scene when I arrived at Stout Street Clinic in downtown Denver. Nancy Pelosi is to pay a visit to the clinic within the hour. About 200 people opposed to Obama’s healthcare agenda braved the mile high Denver sun and high temperatures to show their opposition. Their signs indicate that they are well aware that they have been vilified and targeted in an Oval Office astroturfing campaign designed to discredit their opposition.
First let’s look at the messages and faces of these hardy dissenters. Take a close look so you can compare them to the community organizers who will soon enter the scene and harass them. These citizens have been described by the Democratic National Committee in an ad as “angry mobs organized by desperate Republicans and their well funded allies.”
The Democrat party that funneled billions in the stimulus package to ACORN community organizers to organize, protest and agitate, this same party is now livid that private citizens attend townhall meetings.
These protesters told me that they pay their own way and question what the government is attempting to do to their health care.
“When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts, Nancy Pelosi replied, ‘I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.’” - Jonah Goldberg
Commonly at the tea parties and anti-big government protests hammers and sickles are used to protest democrat policies. The Democrat Party doesn’t seem to have a problem with wall to wall hammers and sickles and has never complained publicly. Maybe they think it’s a compliment? I find that interesting and very telling.
“Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer insists the protests have to be fake because the protesters are too “well-dressed.” Likewise, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says this is all “manufactured anger” because the protesters — he calls them the “Brooks Brothers Brigade” — are too tastefully appointed to be authentic protesters. Apparently only filthy hippies can petition government.” - Jonah Goldberg
I don’t see swastikas or Brooks Brothers suits, but a few American flags and a lot of hand made, home made signs.
“The DNC has put out an ad claiming that the “right-wing extremist base” is out to “destroy” Barack Obama, so it has unleashed “angry mobs . . . mob activity straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives. They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they’ve called out the mob.’ ”
The DNC ad points to a memo written by an activist named Bob MacGuffie as proof that Republican political ops are pulling the strings. It turns out that MacGuffie, a decent-seeming fellow, is a rank amateur whose Right Principles PAC has collected a mere $5,017 and disbursed the staggering sum of $1,777, and has 23 members on Facebook and five followers on Twitter, according to The Weekly Standard’s Mary Katharine Ham.” – J. Goldberg
“The reason for the panic is simple. Obama and the Democrats feel entitled to have their way on health care. This sense of entitlement is understandable. They won the election and control everything.
The problem is that Americans don’t like what they’ve heard about the plan, and Obama is incapable of selling, or unwilling to sell, it on the merits (perhaps because he knows the plan will lead to the single-payer system he has long sought but now denies wanting). That’s why Obama spends most of his time either attacking critics or denouncing the status quo.” – J. Goldberg
“Simply put: This administration believes it knows best. It feels it is the only legitimate beneficiary of “people power.” It thinks it has a monopoly on democratic organizing. And it is terrified that it will be hobbled if it loses this fight.
So, it just stands to reason that anyone who stands in the way must be a fraud, a puppet, a goon — or even a Nazi.” – J Goldberg
After I was on the scene for about 15 minutes I got a call from one of my location scouts. “Hey, you gotta come down by the alley here. A bunch of Obama people just showed up.”
I walked over to the far corner of the clinic and sure enough, freshly minted Obama supporters had arrived on the scene.
Note the wire lawn sign hardware left over from Obama’s Presidential campaign. These people were organized by the ArapaHope Community Team (A.C.T.)
An email circulated the day before by the local Democrat Party urged activists to come out to this event, and another one later that same day, claimed that “rich special interests” would be bussing “Teabaggers” there. Teabaggers is an obscure homocentric term that has been made a household word by the Democrat party. Tea Party participants are people who identify with that patriotic tax revolt of 1773. The Democrats’ reference to them as “Teabaggers” is a horribly crude example of how the left coarsens our public discourse.
“I hope that our work together on the Obama campaign was only the beginning. I want to say that we will continue to be a force to be reckoned with – and carve a niche within the politics of our community to make way for our collective voices to be heard.” – Donna Galassi of A.C.T. (community organizer)
Soon more astroturfazoids began insinuating themselves into my photographs. Here I asked people to pose for me and the ‘zoids barged in. Like characters from Shawn of the dead they just kept appearing in my viewfinder.
Here it happened again. While my subject, on the left, had his sign at chest level, I had to ask him step back and lift it up after the astrozoids barged in. This is obviously part of the instructions and strategy from on high. Disrupt protesters and dominate media coverage. “Go for the cameras”.
More arrived on the scene. Many seemed to come out of the alley, and apparently, out of the back door of the clinic like angry wasps who think their nest is under attack when an innocent passerby brushes up against it.
Typically, these three media photographers fawned over the left wing Turfers. Their numbers are now reaching their peak, which I estimate at 20 % of the total crowd. For 200 tea partiers, there were about 40 Democrat party Astroturfese.
Here is an organizer from Organizing for America, which is the successor organization to Obama for America, which was Obama’s campaign organization. The organizer is demonstrating the use of a bullhorn to a man who appears totally unfamiliar with its use. For a grassroots campaign, this sure is organized!
I thought this a very interesting scene. Here’s a real live “community organizer” in action. He’s organizing this guy and he’s going to send him out to shout down people who are dissenting from the Democrat Party line. The fellow seemed reluctant and as it turns out after a few minutes the organizer retrieved his bullhorn and started using it himself.
Organizing for America’s (OFA) web site presents “grassroots” as a government organized activity.
From OFA’s web site: …”There are many ways to get involved:
- Joining grassroots OFA campaigns to support the President’s agenda. Online, on the phone, on doorsteps and in town halls in communities across the country, we’re building the bottom-up support that makes real change possible.
- Spreading the word to friends and neighbors about the President’s approach on the big issues facing our nation, like health care, energy and education. Nothing is more powerful than your voice in your community.
- Connecting with other supporters to form strong local groups, ready to take on whatever challenges we face.
- Supporting leaders who share our values and are ready to carry forward the fight for change .”
This is the first time in my life that I can recall a government in North America organizing protests of one group of citizens against another. This is standard operating procedure in countries with left-wing governments.
This clinic is adjacent to Denver’s day laborer pickup street, Park Avenue. Being fluent in Spanish, El Marco asked these guys “¿hablan ingles?” “casi nada” was the reply from our amigo on the left. I asked him if he could tell me what the signs said. “¿Quien sabe?” (who knows?) was all he said to me, with a big grin. I’m kicking myself for not asking them how much they were getting paid to be part of Americas grassroots.
The irony of their lack of comprehension of the signs they were holding was heightened by the fact that they were the most elaborate and detailed signs of either group.
While snapping this shot, I inadvertently caught a glimpse of another organizer entering from the left with a ream of colored signs. Behind her walks a young girl dressed as a puppet complete with strings.
Their mime style appeared familiar to me as one taught by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. This protest style has been a standard in America since the ’60s and workshops are taught each year to activists in the U.S. and in developing countries. The SFMT is a hard core stalinist organization. You can visit their web site if you want to sign up for training. They teach special courses for kids at their summer camp too. The SFMT has an extremely influential history and has caused incalculable damage to America. Click link at end of this essay to learn about them.
Here comes our community organizer with his bullhorn. For the next half hour or more, he will chant “FREE HEALTH CARE NOW”, “YES WE CAN” etc. with his horn directed at the faces of the health care dissenters.
During the election, on September 17, 2008, at a campaign stop in Nevada, Obama said “I want you to argue with them (neighbors) and get in their face”.
What we see here is “astroturfing” or manufactured fake grassroots. The dissenters are genuinely concerned and informed about their health care but they maintain their civility. The DNC knows their anger is real and they are desperately trying to deligitimize dissent by claiming it’s paid for “by insurance corporations” yet they don’t name a single one or provide evidence.
It’s David Axelrod, Obama’s senior advisor, who is famous for perfecting AstroTurfing.
This woman worked in tandem with the other organizer and blasted the same people from behind. These bullhorns are extremely powerful. I saw demonstrators repeatedly ask them to point their bullhorns away. This woman in particular responded by moving the bullhorn closer to a woman who complained of ear pain.
Obama, on March 18, said “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry. What I want us to do, though, is channel our anger in a constructive way. “
At that time, he wanted people protesting in the front yards of AIG executives. Now the DNC has ordered this harassment of grassroots dissenters against their statist goals. While in other parts of the country, this Democrat Party activity has descended into violence, what we have seen so far here today is only annoying and childish behavior.
It’s David Axelrod, Obama’s senior advisor, who is famous for perfecting astroturfing. Now he is using the same techniques he deployed for corporations to intimidate political freedom in this country. Here is an article about Axelrod and his companies if you want to study up.
I wanted to get away from the bullhorns so I walked around the corner and found a large group of protesters awaiting the arrival of Nancy Pelosi at the back of the Stout Street Clinic. No bullhorns, no astroturfers.
Within a few moments, Madame Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, arrived for her tour of the homeless medical outreach facility.
Surrounded by secret service and staffers, Mrs. Pelosi enters the back door.
The crowd surges forward. This is the big moment everyone has come for but Mrs. Pelosi disappears in a flash.
So far the astroturfers are on the other side of the building and are missing all the action. They’re still holding on to their hard-won turf out front, having chased these people away with their bullhorns.
A few minutes later the first astroturfers appear amongst the protesters.
They push their way to the front, in an attempt to dominate the scene and possibly catch a glimpse of Nancy.
I stepped back for a wider view and this is what it looked like.
A rather flustered organizer, late on the scene, tries to do catch-up with a rousing series of in your face rants.
Rubber chicken lady has had about enough of him as she gently tries to muffle his noise machine. Now we can actually all say we’ve seen a rubber chicken fly.
Here we see a space opened by protesters retreating from the bullhorn. Ear-splitting and painful for my sensitive hearing. Turfazoids fill the void as they follow twitter for instructions. Note man on left has two PDA’s.
Organizers marveling at their handiwork from the sidelines?
Here’s one of the signs brought by puppet lady. The same man (previous pic) in the background is wearing a Laborers Union Local 720 Denver shirt. He appeared to be quite active but never touching a sign himself.
Another sign by puppet lady.
Take note of the lady on the right. She is holding a sign that reads “Pants on Fire” with Pelosi’s image. The image is repeated three times on her sign. There are no other words. I left the event early but the photo below, from the Denver Post, shows what I missed. The astrozoid on the left below, with the HOPE T-shirt, decided that she didn’t like the Nancy Pants on Fire sign. Not a problem. Just grab it.
The woman in black struggles to maintain her free speech while calling for help from police nearby.
The Denver Post caption described it like this:
“A supporter of health care reform, left, who did not want to give her name, pushes forward to rip a sign out of Kris McLay’s hands outside the Stout Street Clinic visited by Nancy Pelosi.” (THE DENVER POST | RJ SANGOSTI)
This is Laura Avant. She has a degree in social working science, is a substitute teacher, and has been unemployed for seven years. She is taking names for a petition and when I asked her how she found out about the event she said “My organizer called me.” I said “You’re kidding.” She said, “No, look: he’s right there -pointing to the guy with the bullhorn – he’s from Organizing for America.”
It seems odd to me, as a foreigner, that democrats use Abe Lincoln and Dr.King in their propaganda (shirt above), when both men were Republicans assassinated by democrats. Many forget how Republican Abraham Lincoln’s ill-advised choice of a Democrat as a running mate in 1864 gave John Wilkes Booth a good excuse to assassinate him. Upon assuming the presidency, Andrew Johnson immediately began doing his best to ruin the Reconstruction effort by vetoing the Civil Rights Act and by repealing the Freedmen’s Bureau legislation guaranteeing each ex-slave 40 acres and a mule. James Earl Ray, a Democrat, was also inspired by the Democrat’s racist philosophy and rhetoric to kill Dr. M. L. King.
At this point, a number of the astroturfers departed, including Laura. She told me that transportation was waiting to take them to Nancy Pelosi’s next event at Highlands Ranch.
Take special note of man behind/left of Ms. Avant (above) . I noticed him repeatedly approaching an anti-debt protester from behind and whispering in her ear (below). He got her worked up into such a lather that I was afraid she was going to have a stroke. The police were nearby, but due to his smooth behavior it was not obvious that he was involved in the commotion. I observed him 3 times approach slowly from behind, whisper, and withdraw delighted. I asked her what he said and she told me he was saying something about fascism. Was this woman intimidated? She was shaking like a leaf.
She also told me that she and her spouse own a topographic map Co. that has had to lay off workers due to plummeting sales. “We will have no income to pay taxes on” she said.
These two were taking a break while they waited for Nancy to emerge in her SUV. It’s nice when Democrats spend time with their children.
They say “never judge a book by its cover” so I asked the kid with the commie T-shirt which side of the issue he is on. “100% free health care for everyone.” was the answer I got.
“The Senate’s most powerful Democrat on Thursday scolded health care protesters dogging his party’s lawmakers at local meetings, arguing that some critics on the political right have run out of ideas—and ditched their civic manners. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada accused the protesters of trying to “sabotage” the democratic process.
The Republican Party says it’s not behind the protests, but Reid scoffed at the notion that the protesters reflect grass-roots sentiment. He held up a piece of artificial turf during a session with reporters.
“These are nothing more than destructive efforts to interrupt a debate that we should have, and are having,” Reid said. “They are doing this because they don’t have any better ideas. They have no interest in letting the negotiators, even though few in number, negotiate. It’s really simple: they’re taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers … and insurance rackets.” AP Aug.6 2009
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Martin Luther King was hounded, beaten, and jailed by Democrats. Read what he had to say about protesting, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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“Neither side has proprietary rights to the sidewalk. And by the way, not all day laborers are illegals… assumptions are dangerous.”
Actually, the Pelociites were interfering with a lawful protest. Their rudeness and interference was a provocation that the police should have stopped. It’s idiocy to argue that they are entitled to occupy the same space on the sidewalk. Riots have ensued from less. Would the writer care to make a real wager on the premise that the day laborers were legal? The commenter just shows how naive the left can be.
NOBAMA CARE!
great job Carolee! It was just like being there myself.
Larry
I have never been to a protest until this year. I have finally gotten fed up enough with the politics of the left, to take time away from my tax producing small business to join in and express myself. The power mongers in Washington are clueless about how to handle it, except to call us “right wing extremist kooks” who have been paid by big business to show up at these rallies. I smell fear, and that is a good thing. They will get louder and more abusive as their fear increases. Don’t let that stop you. It’s time we let the elected know who the hell they work for. My sign at the next rally will say, “Mid-Term elections, THE ONLY HOPE WE HAVE!!”
WTF is with all the anger among the opponents on this blog? Can you not rationally argue a GOOD reason for Socialized medicine? Instead you resort to calling your opponents names, racist, Mother %^&&*(, etc?
1) I’m glad that conservatives are fighting back. For too long we’ve let you scrubs control the conversation and shout us down. AS you can see in the pictures above, you have two such scrubs using bullhorns at point blank range trying to intimidate and ANGER their opponents.
2) This conversation is not about “insuring” the unwashed masses. From the stats I’ve seen, ~12 million of the uninsured are wealthy enough to afford it but have chosen not too, ~ 9.5 million are between 15 – 30 and think they don’t need health coverage at this stage in their life, ~ 12.5 million are illegals, and don’t deserve more federal funding! ~9 million are between jobs (and therefore coverage plans), ~8 million are children that are eligible but not signed up, and ~ 13 million are eligible for medicare/caid but have not signed up.
So is the answer putting our nation EVEN FURTHER IN DEBT TO COMMUNIST CHINA?
Below are several solutions. The first one would insure the “47 million”, the second would lower health care costs.
S1) Pay for the private insurance of these 47 million individuals. Cinergy (as one example) will insure with NO KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR CONDITION, for 3650 a year. That is ~172 Billion dollars to insure the 47 million.
That’s a whole LOT less than the 1.5 trillion congress is proposing that would literally #%&$@ those currently on private plans, as it’s LONG TERM GOAL is single payer socialized medicine.
S2) Give individuals and corporations the tax incentive to have a medical savings system that doesn’t dissapear year after year. You could use this cash to pay for doctor visits and it would create incentive for competition in the medical field.
3) The government plan is a backdoor plan for Eugenics that will kill the elderly, fat, handicapped and young patients that don’t meet the “productive” goals of Rahm Immanuel!
Is it any wonder people are shouting? WE DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO BE IN OUR LIVES TO THIS DEGREE YOU NIMRODS!
If you do, maybe you should move to Cuba where they can’t even get enough TP!!!
Or to China where if there were counter protestors (protesting government health care) they would be carted off to the work camps in the north…..
But hey, continue loving the state, and worshipping all that it brings you grasshopper.
I’m going to continue to work hard in this wonderful meritocracy and get what I deserve.
This is fantastic. But of course this story didn’t get any coverage in the major liberal media networks
Thanks for a great true picture of who the “astroturfers” really are. I think meetings should be civil.. but radicals never seem to mind when its them that protest…abortion rights, anti war demos,etc, They are trying to minimize us, and this is so typical of how they act. I totally agree that some aspects of health care need reforming, but we don’t need this one crammed down our throat. Maybe the country will wake up to Obama and his Chicago thugs.. this is how they roll.
What a great look at how this all works. Grabbing the Pants on Fire out of the woman’s hand…purely Liberal. Nothing belongs to us. Everything belong to them. Also couldn’t help but notice the ingenuity behind the Health Care supporter signs:-) Ya! Clever.
The bullhorns. That dangerous. I think police are needed at that point. I applaud all the dissenters who braved the sun and made their way to the clinic, probably not on an arranged bus.
You did a great job! Thanks for the look at community organizing (in my state of conservative state of Oklahoma, we don’t have much of this) and your fine commentary.
This is the best and most honest portrayal I’ve seen so far. What a great job. It is really hard to argue with how organized the left is and how grassroots the anti-gov. run healthcare people are. You must be so proud now because there is no doubt that you have been reported to the snitch line. Job well done!!!!
I find it interesting the left is accusing the health care reform (oops! I mean insurance reform) protesters of being organized. I looked up the website printed on the professionally made signs for the health care reform supports. It’s healthcareforamericanow.com. Here is who they have listed as their steering commmitte: “Our Steering Committee includes: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote and Working America. ”
Gosh sounds like they might just be organized!
Super reporting of the Denver event. It’s plain to see who is the bought and paid for organizers (all the professional signs, etc. probably paid for by screwed taxpayers). I’ll be forwarding this link.
Keep up the good work.
I like the Silly String idea but I would try a can of foam insul. It expands into a hardened piece of styrofam and would be a real bitch to try and get out. Might costs the organizers a few bucks replacing thir horns.
Another idea might be to get a bugle and play Reveille in their faces.
Make sure you have it on film that they abused their toy first. I am sure they will call the cops over to cry foul.
Take a look at the organized protesters. Not much exercise in waiting around to be called to stand around. With new socialized medicine, they will be the first denied their insulin, high blood pressure and cholesterol medicines! Oh well ~ survivor of the fittest.
I recommend the real people bring along those freon sound blasters to deafen the bullhorn astroturfers. If some a-hole got in my face with a bullhorn trying to hurt my ears, I’d give him a taste of it.
I was at the protest. A young woman asked me to hold her sign while she took a couple of pictures. The sign said, “We Are Not Astro-turf”. I was verbally attacked. I was repeatedly cussed at and angrily told that I will be walked on.
I was at the front of the line where Nancy Pelosi and her gas guzzling SUV were about to arrive and I was pushed and shoved by the real astro turfazoids as they tried at the last minute to get in front of me. They didn’t.
how long before the DNC starts baning camras and these events ..
Thank you for this report!
really, really good reporting…. I am muchly impressed… Thank-you for one of the only truthful reports I have seen…. Leftist a**holes…
This is a wonderful essay. It is great to have a document that shows the truth, the whole truth. Refreshing!
Next time we’re faced with a harassing baiter – how about chanting “Baiter No Baiting, Baiter No Baiting” Many voices together may be able to make them stop instigating!
I find the bullhorns particularly troublesome. I have significant hearing loss, and such obnoxious sounds not only HURT, they endanger what’s left of my hearing. Not to mention it’s the height of rudeness to stick one in someone’s face.
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So, BULLHORN DE-FENSE should be on the table.
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Some suggestions for the good guys…
a. some harmless substance squirted into the horn to disable it such as SILLY STRING. It’s gooey at close range, and would fill the cone quickly.
b. wire cutters…a bullhorn without a mic is useless.
c. earplugs
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Anyone else?
Who would have ever imagined these things ocurring in America? Keep on posting the truth, America needs to know what their government is doing.We have been on a slippery slope since May 31, 2008, and people will no longer just sit by and let this radicalbunch run over us. This our country, and we want it back!!!!
You fucking idiots are too stupid to realize that you are fighting against yourselves. From the middle-class tax cut to health care, you zombie fucks take the corporate side and fight their fights for them–all against you–the middle class.
I’ve seen you fuckfaces at the town hall meetings, and it’s not as if you are titans of business. The vast majority of you are middle class–lower middle-class, even–and too fucking stupid to even know what you are screaming about.
Many of you are racist motherfuckers, too.
Go fuck yourselves.
Too bad you didn’t get a picture of the Obama bus loading up. Thanks for your efforts.
Fantastic work! Great idea! I like how all the Obamacare signs are manufactured astroturf while the dissenters are the products of individual creativity.
Excellent point made about the Hammer & Sickle; it is fascinating that this specific symbol really never seems to disturb Progressive Democrats.
If you were doing objective reporting, why did you not note that several people who had signs against socialized medicine and other antis were clearly old enough to be on medicare. But I suppose that would suggest that the antis are spinning the issue and may not have all of the facts or more likely don’t care what the facts are. I like the read the bill signs. The Dems had a several hour session for the House members – most attended and for 4 hours staff went over legislation before Reps were allowed to ask questions. Wonder if Repubs are reading the Bill?
Outstanding work! Great job! Thats all the support Madam speaker could muster up for the event!? HA! Keep up the good fight people.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Excellent coverage. The use of bullhorns was intimidating and cruel. The Left is, as always, doing a lot of lying.
stupid kid and his soviet shirt
A warning from a freindly Aussie – don’t allow Obama to go down the path of socialised medicine….or you WILL be sorry.
It’s certainly apparent where the “thuggery” is coming from. When the left doesn’t get it’s way, in comes the “Know Nothing” bullies. Well this is one battle the Obama administration is going to lose as are the Congressmen and Senators who vote for any healthcare reform bill come 2010.
Bravo!…Another excellent report.
I was there that day. I am the Woman in the pink shirt standing next to Kay. Kay is the women who was knocked down by the obama supporter. She is a very nice women,who was out exercising her right to free speech and became a victim of the crazy out of control HC supporters. During the course of the afternoon
we had all gotten to know each other. We all can attest after trying to have a rational conversation with HC supporters, that it is next to impossible. My advice for the next rally or protest anyone attends, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THESE PEOPLE. Not worth wasting your breath. Do not acknowledge them. This will probably really drive them crazy. They won’t know what to do with all their hot air. Just quietly stand your ground with dignity and let your protest sign do the talking.
I have to say I am Sorry…I am from California and the idiots that live up north voted in many of the left wing wackos that are causing this country trouble now. Nancy, Barbara, Waxman…the list goes on. We have to VOTE THEM OUT NOW!! This was a FANTASTIC site. The pictures were great. I have passed this on to my entire email list…we should all send it to everyone. Notice there were not ANY “grassroots” left. They were all organized…and paid no doubt. Another HANDOUT. Why don’t they get real jobs and see what AMERICA is all about. GOD BLESS AMERICA
Mandatory anything takes away freedom. I am very concerned because Obama is not a righteous man; in fact, he is immoral, does not believe in the sanctity of life. By his behavior, he has demonstrated his level of maturity which equals their level of competency.
What kind of role model is he??? Definitely NOT somebody we want our children to be like. Nor is he a leader. The members of congress who are at his beckon call can be put in the same category as he. They all need psychological help and should be institutionalized!
so i read your report and looked at the photos and I fail to see what the big deal is. The reformers have as much right to be there for Pelosi’s visit as the “non-reformers.” Both got the chance to demonstrate their beliefs. Neither side has proprietary rights to the sidewalk. And by the way, not all day laborers are illegals… assumptions are dangerous.
eddoc, you are the one making the assumption that the day laborers are illegals. Re-read the post; it neither says nor implies any such thing. My blog also does not imply that the organizations supporting Obama’s proposed health care reforms have no right to be there. eddoc, you really should check your assumptions.
- El Marco
This “report” is so horribly biased and full of opinion, hyperbole, rhetoric and confirmation bias as to be sadly laughable.
And before people start pointing fingers at me for that comment and accusing me of being all for censorship/etc. – I’m all for folks of all viewpoints assembling peacebly. It’s part of the democratic process. But when folks (the conservatives, of late – well documented on YouTube, by other conservatives!) gather and shout down opposing voices… then it’s gone too far.
What I find laughable and the main point of the whole debate is that the left wing liberals keep stating “100% free health care for everyone”.
There in lies the problem with the liberal left wingers – they think everything is free and are looking for the free handouts.
They have no understanding that NOTHING is free. People that are working and have healthcare currently, will just have to pay higher taxes to pay for those who aren’t working and don’t have healthcare.
Our Constitution and our Government was never established to take 40% of what I earn and use it to provide unlimited services to others.
AWESOME WORK! THANK YOU FOR EXPOSING THE DNC FRAUDS!!!!
I was at this rally. I GIVE money to move.on and Obama.
You people are pathetic.
An outstanding photo essay!
I think that when someone blows a bull horn in our ear we should put out the boat horn in a can and return the favor.
Speaking of no Democrat objection to sickles and hammers or totalitarian kitsch, I was reading “Why Dictators Love Kitsch” and the following popped out with the glorification of Obama in mind:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574336383324209824.html
“Some years after the collapse of Communism, I asked a Russian art critic what had happened to all the Socialist Realists in his country. He said they were still earning a living making other kinds of art, but that the transition hadn’t always been seamless. He cited the case of a painter whose stock in trade had been portraits of Lenin. The man was now earning his living churning out religious subjects. But, my friend added, so ingrained were his earlier habits that every time he painted the face of Jesus, he wound up with a likeness of Lenin.”
Great reporting. Thanks. I’ll do my best to see this gets around.
Amazing how true American citizens can come together in unity to oppose the insane Socialized single pay system that Obama has in store for us. Obama little puppets are no match for the millions that say NO to this madness.
God bless you for these photos and God bless America!
Outstanding coverage. Any real newspaper–alas, few remain–would love to run that.
Here’s some art you may, or may not, want to pass along. Feel free to “borrow.”
http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/charter-member-of-the-angry-mob/
Excellent pictures and synopsis of this event. I just got back from a Town Hall meeting today in Upstate NY with Scott Murphy. It was pretty tame comparatively to this. The tea party side was 3/1 to the supporters of Obamacare. But compared to the tea party patriots who mostly had hand written signs, the pro-government health care forces came up with “manufactured” signs mostly. There was the one loon who had a man-made sign that said “Black president, Hispanic Justice. we won.. get over it!!” So who is the real racists??? I was pretty offended that he felt that way about us. But apparently smear tactics are on the side of the liberal left who believe in bigger government rule.
Thanks for shwing these. Shame on you, Mr. President. You are a thug. Not a President who seserves my respect, a thug.
This is America…not a Communist country for you to control.
People, wake up. It’s NOT about healthcare. It’s about Power, Control and Redistribution.
When I was at the local get together here my sign said “ObamaScare: the next Cash For Clunkers? Turn in Grandma!
That’s what’s happening. We aren’t going to take care of our elderly or babies but we will take care of illegals. Ridiculous.
Great coverage!!! The best I’ve seen of this protest in Denver! I’ve linked your page.
Cheers
Excellent reporting on this post. Great pictures and actual HONEST reporting.
Which group paid you for this unbiased piece of work? j/k
This has to be the best yet. Our representative does not have any town halls scheduled (well, one on the 18th (a Monday, 1030 am), in a very small town 90 miles away from his local office, in the middle of a fairground. Me thinks he will be a bit surprised. Hopefully, we will do half as good as you guys. Great example of LIBERTY in action.
What a great report of what really went on in Denver. Thanks so much for reporting. We rallied today in St. Louis to support Kenneth Gladney, the man who was assaulted at the Russ Carnahan rally Thursday night.
I will be sending this to gatewaypundit.com. We salute all you patriots in Denver. Good for you.
Keep the faith. We will win.
Wow, this is incredible. I haven’t seen this stuff ANYWHERE else.
I think it’s time we buy some bull horns. From my days in NYC the socialist/communist groups always had the ‘best’ sound system. They came with bull horns and extra speakers. No matter how big the crowd was they dominated the action.
CAN YOU ZOOM in on the organizers sheet? Just curious about what it says.
The only difference between these leftist wackos and nazis is that the nazis had cool uniforms.
I wasn’t able to make it to this event, so watched the news that night, they talked about it, but never showed the amount of protesters(anti Obamacare).. These are great pics.. Post to facebook, post on twitter, post on everything.
Thanks for such an outstanding report. Excellent pictures and coverage to show what is actually happening.
Well done! This is Pulitzer-level material, and it’s exactly what the Media should be doing, if they weren’t back in their offices publishing DNC talking points.
FANTASTIC WORK, KEEP IT UP, AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE THIS AND MORE! FREEDOM DOES COST! “WE THE PEOPLE” MUST VOTE IN 2010 AND AGAIN IN 2012!
Absolutely excellent investigative reporting. I don’t know what your background is, I was sent this post by a friend, but this is a very important piece, this is what journalims looks like. Thank you very much for your work.
I don’t think this is going to work here, at least not now. It’s too much, too soon. One informed passionate patriotic citizen is worth a dozen zombie-thugs.
Awesome coverage, pics, and commentary – I’ve tweeted it, and emailed it…
McCoyforCouncil.com
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This article combines excellent, methodical and understandable reporting with the photo-essay technique. It should be a blueprint for those sincere and well-intentioned amateur bloggers among us who find the suppression of true free speech to be appalling.
This article follows the old Sgt. Friday admonition in ‘Dragnet’:
“Just the facts ma’am. Please? Just the facts.”
I thank the author and reporter of this site. It will be helpful to me in convincing several local folk who are still humming ‘ommmm’ and lighting devotional candles to ‘great leader’ that perhaps – just perhaps – they may be wrong about the administration and its goals.
Jim Anderson
anderson.james@att.net
The best part of your post is the signs that say:
“Why Doesn’t Congress Want ObamaCare Themselves?”
and
“Congress Has Cadillac Care.”
Those signs are the entire point of healthcare reform. We deserve the same thing Congress gets: Government-funded health insurance.
The people holding these signs (many of whom are already receiving federal health insurance under Medicare) want to deny me and my kids the same thing that old people and congress already have: guaranteed, government-funded health insurance.
Why do you all think that my kids and I don’t deserve what Medicare recipients already get? Why don’t my kids and I deserve what Congress has?
If government-funded health insurance is so horrible, why don’t you all disenroll from Medicare?
It’s obvious that nanny didn’t have enough buses nor enough store bought signs.
Fantastic coverage … Thanks for posting.
It’s obvious the Commie community organizer doesn’t think Americans should be allowed to organize.
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people. And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a lynch mob advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
Your strategy is to act like two-year-olds and throw tantrums. Don’t be surprised when you are treated like the spoiled brat children that you are.
its a shame the obama people are trying to lie about what the people are doing that don’t want obama care. the people that i have seen at the Hands Off My Health Care Rallies are just a grass roots effort.
Amazing. The boy with the Soviet-styled t-shirt wanting “100% free health care for everyone” typifies the brainlessness of the other side (those who have never had a cogent independent thought in their lives). It never occurs to these people that in order to maintain ANY sort of business, it must be PAID FOR, and there has to be at least SOME incentive.
These people have never lived in the real world, they have no idea whatsoever what is necessary to operate in the real world, all they have is their imbecilic ideologically-driven notions, and they are hell-driven to impose their stupid fantasies upon the rest of us.
Excellent report!
I notice in the photo where Bullhorn Bully is being muffled, he’s holding a printed script. But then, it seems that the left cannot function without a script to blindly follow (see MSM talking points, for example).
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I am posting a link to this on my blog.
Health care clinic for the homeless? We give so much health care away for ‘free’ in this country already. Do people have any idea who pays for those free clinics across America? And emergency room visits for the uninsured? Wealth redistribution.
1. Pop culture values wealth over morals.
2. Govt takes some of your wealth to give you peace of mind about hedonistic lifestyle and morals as it will take care of those in need.
3. Outlaw G_d or remove him from view. Because when the govt wasn’t buying votes with taxpayer money, the people who needed help would most often find it through a religious charity.
4. Collude with media to push your agenda and pop culture values of money. Because if you take all of the American out of a G.I. Joe movie and market and show it heavily in middle America, you just might finally indoctrinate the youth who have resisted public educators.
5. When all else fails, use flag@whitehouse.gov.
Thank you for the great reporting.
This is absolutely amazing and should be required reading for EVERYONE. I blogged it here: http://tinyurl.com/mx7ofp and will also Twitter it.
Thanks for the great work. I’m not sure how I missed your site until now, but it’s just become a favorite.
WOW. Great reporting. This is what the mainstream media should be doing. Telling the truth!
Viva Looking at the Left! Thanks!
Nancy Pelosi’s comment about swastika-carrying, anti-Obamacare protestors could not be further from the truth. My daughter and I were at this protest and are strongly opposed to socialized healthcare. My father-in-law is a WWII Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (location of heroic act: Germany). If he were alive today, I know he would be walking beside us in support of our pro-Constitutional efforts. Pelosi’s comments are an insult to the legacy of that “greatest generation” that fought for our freedom and against communism and socialism.
This is the best photo essay I’ve seen on the ‘net in a long while. “Big” blogs got me here, and I put a link on my FaceBook page highly recommending this.
I love the “freshly minted signs” from the Healthcare Supporters. If that doesn’t say it all!
Hey El Marco –
GREAT photos and a terrific account of the astroturfing in evidence this week at the Pelosi scrum. Excellent job and great pics!
I was there and I am the lady in the black shirt getting wacked by that nutjob Obamabot. (My nom de cyber guerre is Dinah Lord, but given that the cops were involved I used my real name. :^D) I have put up an account of the event at my site if you’re interested.
Again, thanks for doing such a great job. Keep up the good work.
I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say the Obama administration is the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War, which he and his seem to be hoping for.
Thank you for this very enlightening post.
This pictorial essay is tour de force!
I cannot add materially to the kudos above for your excellent work! I can only aid in spreading the word around the internet about these wonderful people who stood up to that botoxed, prune-lipped, lying sack of crap from San Francisco and her union goons.
Keep up the great work! I’ll be a regular visitor!
Marco, great story and very interesting pics. Could I have permission to copy a few of them into a blog post about your article?
Reform = Change
We’ve already had enough (bad) “change” that we didn’t want. Those who “thought” they wanted change were too benighted to pay attention to reality.
Our healthcare is the best in the world. Maybe find a method for cheap clinics where those who don’t want to pay or who can’t, can stand in line. But for those who want to pay, leave us alone.
A quote from our so-called president: “We live in the greatest country in the world. Won’t you join me and help me change it.”–Barack Obama.
This “president” is an evil idiot.
You did some great work with this photo essay. Thank you.
Marco: Superb photo array. Thanks for your diligent efforts!
Very well done, thank you so much!
Excellent pics and commentary. Thanks for posting this!
I wish so much that the comment “These kings will be the jokers when we the people vote” were true, but they have also “organized” voter registration and the election process (miscounting or not counting ballots). Voter machines are really a problem, especially those with no paper trail. If “we the people” are to win, we need to monitor the election process with a microscope, and that will require a lot of volunteers. Plus, “we the people” need to get going on community organizing of our own. I am praying for our country…
Outstanding job! I’ll do my part to make this viral! Keep up the amazing work!
Barack Obama says we can’t just do nothing. Funny. Where’s all the nuance they complained was lacking in George Bush? Some people don’t have insurance so we rejigger the system and risk trashing it for the other 85%? And it’s charitable to use the word “risk.” Has the government done anything on such a broad scale successfully?
Nice website. I actually thought I might have seen my slacker brother in law or his sponge wife “organizing” for the one.
Excellent documentary.
I wish the government “health care” protesters really did have an organizer so I could quit missing these things!!!
Excellent photos. If one picture says a thousand words, then this photo essay is a New York Times bestseller. I will be forwarding this on to everyone I know. Keep up the good work!
It is not right vs left as they say…it is right vs wrong. Your illustration is irrefutable evidence of the left’s immorality and dishonesty. How embarrasing for them.
Absolutely fantastic work!! Not only are pictures worth a thousand words, there’s no denying the truth they tell. This sort of “Organized” crap may look good at a stadium on the election trail, or at one of Obama’s bagillion PR addresses…but when you compare REAL grassroots, to the Astroturfed activists there IS no comparison!! Axlerod may be a genius of a scheming bastard, but he has absolutely no sense of when its over kill. Gangsters, the whole lot of them!
Well done young man! You can be proud of the work you did here.
Great job covering an event! Thanks for showing us all how Pelosi and Obama’s paid puppets are the ones really on scene. Unbelievable! Way to go 200 citizens of Denver for giving of your time to oppose this crazy health scheme (and being attacked by Obama’s thugs).
Very well done. Thank you for capturing, describing, and sharing with everyone this miserable behavior by America’s bankrupt left. It’s just unbelievable.
Make sure you check your local statutes. Here in Texas, it is illegal to use a “device that amplifies sound” above a certain decible range without a permit, subject to hefty fines.
I’m getting tired of you people.
Well done! Excellent pictures and coverage. MSM who???
THIS IS GREAT AMERICANS! KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. OBAMACARE DESTROYS FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS. ENOUGH! THANK GOD 2010 IS AROUND THE CORNER. THESE KINGS WILL BE THE JOKERS WHEN WE THE PEOPLE VOTE. OH I FORGOT, THEY MADE THE ANOINTED ONE THE JOKER ALREADY. LOL
LONG LIVE FREEDOM! WE THE PEOPLE MUST PRESERVE FREEDOM FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS!
Unfriggenbelievable! Please- may we re-publish this all over the internet? Of course we will give credit where due- but this has got to go viral!
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